10 things we didn't know this time last week
15:27 UK time, Friday, 8 May 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. There is a real place called Hicksville.
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2. Britain once sent an envoy with a quadruple-barrelled name to Moscow - Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurley Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.
3. Sikhs do not have to wear motorcycle crash helmets.
4. Napoleon wrote chick-lit.
5. John Prescott's toilet seat broke twice.
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6. Tom Hanks watches Loose Women.
7. Youth hostelling was invented in Germany in 1912.
8. The use of the word "rat" as an insult in English goes back at least until the 16th Century.
9. Two main muscles are used for smiling - the zygomatic muscle turns the corner of the lips up and the orbicularis oculi crinkles the corners of the eyes.
10. Birds are actually really rather clever.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Hamna Saeed, from Cardiff, for this picture of the lions in Longleat.
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